Not soon. Although over the past year there have been many changes in my "village": the shuttle buses began to accept payment by cards, heh, in my area it can be considered a cyberpunk: old buses and contactless payment 

IMHO, but yes. When there was news that Vitalik died in a car accident (of course, fake), then Ethereum fell. Yet Acne is the head of the Ethereum, its face. And in general this is the rule. Bad news about the head of some company = drop in the company's shares.

How hard it is today. The market is falling, payments are falling, many ICO simply die without paying anything, and many are simple frauds. I am saddened by the situation. And now I can say...
We really need regulation.

I do not think it was hacking. I remind you that phishing and other methods of extracting personal information are not hacking, this is just a scam/fraud. I think that there was a mistake on your part.

Lol, of course not. This is a narrow area that is needed far from all. Plus, this technology is still very raw, it has not come into life, so to study what else can die ... You are in fantasy, look skeptical.

Since ETH capitalization has fallen heavily, so now it is completely dependent on Bitcoin. Therefore, we need to expect another decision about Bitcoin ETF. It is very interesting that SEC expects proposals on Bitcoin ETF until October 24, which means unambiguous acceptance. I can’t talk about the deadlines, but it will be definitely adopted. And with it the ethereum will fly to the moon. Again.

This question is incorrect. Blockchain is just a technology that can be used by someone, it can not do anything itself  . But banks may well use the blockchain, this is not surprising. By the way, blockchain != cryptocurrency, these are completely different concepts. Just a decentralized registry, no magic.

I do not think that beginners can learn something if they read guides and stuff. Yet in this area you need to learn from your mistakes, find your own weak points, create your OWN "game strategies". But at the same time you are right. Knowledge (even obtained from your own mistakes) will not allow fall into the trap twice, if used correctly.

IMHO, of these two, I would prefer nothing. Rippl no cryptocurrency centralized scam, which should not be coinmarketkap, speculations and manipulations. Litecoin itself is incredibly unstable, the developers are not going to develop the coin, he remained forever in 2012.

Security tokens, because they have much more prospects today: SEC is interested in cryptocurrencies, huge investment funds with REAL coins, not futures (BAKKT), will soon appear. IMHO, utility tokens will have to become partly security.
Without this, it will sink into oblivion.

I agree, it is rather a psychological effect. People want to see more coins in their accounts. Growth from $ 0.1 to $ 1 looks much more interesting than from $ 10 to $ 100. In other cases, this price is due to the equivalent of something, such as a kilowatt of energy, I have met such tokens.

Well, it is for this purpose that distinction identification procedures are carried out for project developers, I think that today many people pay attention to this: honest developers will not hide their team, on the contrary, professionals need to show themselves to investors. For this we need DECENTRALIZED ICO-trackers, which are not dependent on anyone. Scammers can simply pay the administrators of a platform for a good rating.

Well, this was true somewhere in the summer of 2017, I call this period the “Yobit era”. Then you could buy any scam on a job and wait a week later for a PUMP. But not now, now the scam coins are dying one after another, some kind of market cleansing. My answer is definitely not.

Everything depends on the coins themselves. IMHO, I would prefer to keep coins from the top 20 than to have a pile of scam/shitcoins, in the hope that some of the shit tokens will give me a thousand x`s (yobit 2017, hello!)

Unfortunately, if we look at the price ratio for many coins today and at the ICO stage, then we can be horrified. Very, very few projects have given any profit, it is better to sell them if they have reached at least the prices of ICO.

Of course, in the first place still ETH (Ripple-scam, go out the door there!).
The second coin is NANO. Yes, I remember it from the time of RaiBlocks and still believe in it. And, finally, the third coin is .... DOGE! This crafty dog still shows his, was born as a meme, became a profit.

Unfortunately, in addition to the analysis of the project, ordinary luck plays an important role here. Alas! Many projects, which in appearance seemed very good, eventually turned out to be an ordinary fraud. Again and again

2017:
– Vitalik, when PoS and Casper?
– End of 2017
2018:
– Vitalik, when PoS and Casper?
– 2019

Well, with the etherium everything is logical (WOW, captain obvious), stable, but long (not stepwise, more like a curve) development. IMHO, but POS is vital to blockchain today. Without this, we will not move from the $ 300 point.

No, in this case the answer is unambiguous - no. In the crypto currency, tens of times more people are involved than in 2009, when several thousands of geeks knew about it. Now everything is quite different, leading exchange funds think about the crypto currency.
I would not expect more growth than x10.

Big and real money - no way, the era of the boom has already passed, enough people have entered the cryptocurrency to maintain a stable course. If you have a head on your shoulders, you yourself can find gold veins. Remember: to share something really profitable with you no one will ever be.